The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-04-30
April showers.

had u carpet stolen from his house last Sun
day night"
Mr.. K. B. Dickey Is fixing up" nightly
about bis residence, and has greatly improy-
ed its appearance.
Mr.. Teubner was In Monday. He said the
peaches were still all right, despite the two
previous heavy frosts.
Read Mr.. Bsiley's advertisement of build
ing lots for sale. His prices are low enough
and the lots very desirable.
Strangers visiting our city make remarks
as to the bad condition of LeXington's pave
ments. Let the council look to it.
We hope the Post is right when it says
there will be no drones in its board Of trade.
Wish we could say as much for our business
association.
The proprletors of the Tarboro' Souther-
ner. Tarboro, N. c., write:-"Dr. Bulls
Cough sirup goes SO fast our druggists can't
keep supplied"
Marshall Progress :-"There are two large
forces of men and teams at work on the Mo.
Pacific extension here. Mr.. O'Hearn is at
work on the Spahr and Gilpin place, and Mr..
Geo. Vaughan just east of town. Two
miles of grading has already been finished"
Pat Dugan was brought from Higginsville
and placed In Jail, this week, to work out a
fine for deserving his wife and committing
bigamy with another woman. He deser-
YES his fate. and we hope Keeper Williams
will make him break more dormicks than he
has commandments.
While Mrs. Huntsey, wife of the engineer
at Mr.. Roberts mill. in Napoleon, was max
ing soap by an open fire IN the dooryard. last
Tuesday, her dress caught fire and she was
terribly and fatally burned before assistance
arrived. She is aged about 80 years, and al
though not dead at our latest advices. no
hopes were entertained for her recovery.
Prof. SANFORD Sellers lease OF the W. NJ,
A. school expiring Jun l. the trustees met q
few days ago and renewed 1t for five years.
Prof. Sellers has been very successful with
the school, and Its work this year has com.
mended it more than ever, so that the com.
munity, which Il interested in Its continued
prosperity, Is to be congratulated upon the
event.
Kansas City, Mo-, April 2S.-Ssmuel Ell.
ington, convicted OF robbing the mails, when
asked BY the Judge this morning what he had
to say before sentence was pronounced, re-
piled that he wanted a long term, as he was
q dangerous man and if he got out soon he
would kill all the witnesses. The Judge
sentenced him to twelve years In the peni-
Tertiary.
st. Joseph Gazette IA new engine order
ed by Superintendent Harris for the st. j. &
st. L. road Is almost completed and will be
skipped from Pittsburg on saturday. Five
hundred tons of steel rails, amounting to
about five and one-half miles of track, will
be shipped next week from the Western
Steel company, of st. Louis, for relayinx the
track at Cover, on the st. ]. 3 st. L. road
The Post has been misinformsd as to he
num5er Of people at the railroad meeting
here, last Saturday, and as to the statement
that thos present were mostly from Lexing-
ton. The attendance was principally from
the country. Our peighbor should print the
resolutions, too. They are upon q very i'm
portsnt subject, and the readers of the Post
want to see them, we think, approving of
them.
Maj shall, Mo-: Engineer q. g.. Stocker
surveyed the route of the spur from the main
line of the Missouri Pacific extension into the
city to-day. 1t run from Salt Fork up
Dances Hollow, and to a point on Eng lish
avenue, near Blanchard's lumber yard, moi
Lore than fifty yards from the Chicago &
Alton depot, and is about a mile and a hall
long. Dances Hollow runs a little north
west and southeast, passing north Of the cas-,
school bnilding and sou h of the gas-works
An enthusiast in Illinois writes :-'Hov
dear to my heart is the boom we are having
how dear to the boomers who help it alolg
Who sing of improvement aud rustling ant
paying, while hundreds Of voices Join In
with the song. The kickers must vanish, ant
~loafers must perish, the cranks and The croak'
must all amble down, and we will encourage
and fOndle and cherish, those long-headet
boomers, those progressive boomers, thos
free handed boomers who brace up tn,
town."
Marshall Progress :-'The city has quite
railroad air this week owing to the nearnes
Of the place Of action on the extension
Messrs. Blodgett, Mclaughlin, Crews
O'Hearn, VIM. Bagnell, Stocker, Vaughan
Martin and other contractors and engineer
are repeatedly visible on our streets, driving
or riding to and from the scene of labor OF
the railroad. Ou- active railroad commit
tees ar. also hurrying to and fro, an
altogether the appearance presented is yer
lively"
The city counc met a few nights ago 4
adjourned meeting. The scales commltte
ordered to have them repaired. Fence order
ed built at Goose Pond. Setter fence on Wa
ter street ordered moved back, the preseu
fence being declared q nuisance. Timer
ordered to remove scraps from streets an,
alleys near their shops. City hotel ice hous
declared q nuisance. On motion of Mr.. Rus
sell q committee of three appointed to ascer
tain cost of macadsm for Water street. Th
real estate delinquent list was received.
Our citizsns should carefully consider tb
question as to who they desire to have rep
resent them IN the council for the next tw
years. The time of Messrs. Gavin, Taubmar
! Russell and HOWELL will expire in June. ]
these gentlemen have proven sati factory
J r~e-elect them, but think over 1t, and do no
let the matter go by default. We can "a
this much, that the policy of the presen
council to pay a. they 60, is q good one, ant
} that 1t 10 getting the city out OF debt. 1t onl
. needs a little 1rmer han.i on the expenditure
in order to get things in good shape b
another year.
. The mushroom craze has struck the tow
and large quantities of these delicious edi
bles, which grow wild in the woods and o
sand bars near town, have been gathered an
eaten by our citizens, numerous 'mushroor
parties" going out in search OF ther
! every day. We must caution everybod
against mistaking "tosd-stools" for mush
rooms, some ~vsrities Of which resemble tn
I latter SO closely that 1t 10 said there is b.
one way IN which certainly to distinguis
them. If you eat them and they do not XII
you, they are mushrooms; II they do XII
{ you, they are toad-stools. Be careful.
, Mr.. NJ. G., Jacobs, Of Independence, was
I Lexington, last Saturday. While here b
> pu chased from Mr.. VIM. Morrison, th
9 Hudnall place, Lear Wellington, for SI2, 7s1
Mr.. Jacobs has recently, as our reader
I have been informed, sold some OF his land
; near Independence at very high figures, an
& has 4 good deal Of money to invest. He say
the Kansas City boom Is bound % reflect 6
far As Lexington, and that Ne will begin t
Y realize 1t as soon as the new road I'D Il
river Is finished. He is SO mucn OF tn,
l opinion that he wants to buy several goo
> farms near Lexington. He wants numbs
Q one land, that lies well, not too far fro
town.
We mentioned, briefly. last week, the So
accident that befell Mrs. Coe. rhe Odesl
. Herald speaks of it more infinitely as TO